Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon Endeavour capsule undocked from the International Space Station on Jan. 14 for a scheduled Jan. 15 splashdown and recovery.

The National Reconnaissance Office expects to launch its first mission of the year as early as Jan. 16, the office said Jan.14.

The U.S. military is opening a second acquisition track for affordable and mass-producible missiles.

The U.S. Navy wants to develop a new, compact air-to-air missile using emerging highly loaded grain solid rocket motor energetics.

Nearly nine months after the Trump administration released its fiscal 2026 budget proposal to slash NASA funding by 24%, Congress is poised to reject the cuts.

SkyFi, a space startup that specializes in satellite imagery and analytics, raised $12.7 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round.

Boeing and startup Salient Motion plan to attempt to certify modular actuators for commercial airliners.

Denmark is increasing its military activity in Greenland and may send combat aircraft there amid the U.S. government’s interest in acquiring the island.

CNES is transforming the Guiana Space Center (known as CSG, under its French acronym) into a hub where multiple operators offer launch services.

Divergent regional trends in global defense spending are a further reminder that this defense market boom is different from those seen in recent decades.

France has yet to find a ride to space for its twin-nanosatellite “Yoda” demonstration program for geostationary patrol against potential unfriendly spacecraft.

NH90 crews from France and Spain will be the first to benefit from an upgraded helmet-mounted sight that will also unlock planned upgrades for the rotorcraft.

Airbus plans to test a software-defined satellite to underpin efforts to develop non-terrestrial 5G connectivity infrastructure.

Open Cosmos received Ka-band spectrum rights through Liechtenstein as the European space tech company prepares to deploy an LEO broadband satellite system.

A recent series of ground tests validated a rotation detonation ramjet linked to a supersonic inlet for the first time.

The Department of Defense will invest $150 million to produce gallium in Louisiana.

The Defense Department has unveiled a new strategy meant to hasten the adoption of new artificial intelligence technologies.

Luminary Cloud, a U.S. startup applying artificial intelligence to physics-based engineering simulation, has expanded its range of design models.

President Donald Trump’s new attack on defense industry shareholder awards and executive pay will be problematic for the entire sector.

Blended wing body (BWB) startup JetZero says development of its full-size demo will accelerate following a successful Series B financing round.

Startup Array Labs is attempting to develop formation-flying radar satellites to study the feasibility of conducting “persistent, wide-area” airborne moving target indication missions from space.

Firefly Aerospace plans to introduce upgrades to its Alpha rocket after the company suffered several mishaps with the launcher.

Sierra Nevada Company has used its own funding to buy another Bombardier Global 6500 for the U.S. Army’s future ME-11B surveillance aircraft fleet.

Axiom Space has revealed new details of its space station assembly plan.